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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently teach by play acting, as well as by pats on the head for good students. "The method brings emotions into the classroom," explains the professor. "Unless you feel a new language emotionally, the words won't come out when you need them." For the transit police project whose $18,000 cost was paid by private foundations, Rassias based classroom exercises on subway situations: passengers asking for directions, youths jumping across turnstiles, men molesting women. The daily eight-hour sessions were taught by four Spanish-speaking subway policemen who took a four-day cram course in Rassias' method...
...Governor John Dalton has just sidetracked a planned 1% sales tax in the state's northern counties that would have helped support the Washington Metro underground-and-elevated rail system. Detroit's plan for a southeastern Michigan transit system is being blocked by opposition from adjoining towns whose leaders say that they must pay more than a fair share of the costs and whose predominantly white residents fear that the system would make their city too easily accessible to Detroit blacks...
...most investors the stock market is the Dow Jones industrial average, that index of 30 stocks whose price fluctuations are a barometer of good and bad times. But complaints are common that the Dow is not really a representative market measure. In hopes of improving it, the Wall Street Journal, which selects the stocks that make up the average, has revised it for the first time in 20 years. Result: the Dow now reflects almost 25% of the market value of all 1,566 New York Stock Exchange listings, vs. 19.3% before...
...offices that are meant to pass as the haunts of the rich and powerful but actually look rather tacky. When the film finally gets around to dialogue, it is mostly about the advisability of making a public stock of ering for a family-held pharmaceutical house - a topic whose entertainment possibilities are soon exhausted. All but one of the unappetizing characters are in desperate need of liquidity, and one of them has bumped off the firm's founder, who was a holdout against going public. Now the villain keeps making inept attempts on the life of the founder...
This plot is not so much developed as witlessly reiterated. For comic relief we are offered a detective whose sublime faith in computers is never rewarded by solid leads. We also get a hired killer who indulges in kinky sex simply because such escapades are an obligatory part of Hollywood packages like this. One expects fantasies in the newish jet-set genre (The Other Side of Midnight, The Greek Tycoon) to be unfelt, but it is always a little surprising to find them so poorly observed. Almost any of the gos sip columns that provide the raw material for these...